Chapter. 10 Lead and Silver Coins (32)
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“Sniping… The sniping has stopped!”
“Take cover! “If both the charger and the battery are alive, call their number on this channel!”
“27 guns! Operational!”
“Nine shots in half!”
“3 bags possible!”
“42 guns! “With the storage capacity, you can do it 2…3 times!”
“There’s no need to aim, so just shoot wherever you can! “Secure space!”
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“‘Snow’. “The box is ready.”
“I can’t believe that the secret garden, which was so dark that I couldn’t see the end, is coming so close to my eyes… What about the evacuation of the ‘sheep’?”
“It’s done. “This cave was prepared for this moment, so there won’t be any problem.”
“What is the situation?”
“As they say. “After many sacrifices, Dom’s group is gaining the upper hand.”
“Good. then. “Is the martyr ready to open the box?”
“…Gloriously.”
“….Thank you for your hard work, Shepherd Bernard.”
“It was nothing. It will be the fertilizer of the new world. “Isn’t hard work what adds to its value?”
“I wanted you to remain a shepherd of the sheep.”
“…Please take care of my children. Eyes that light the way.”
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“Mikhail Pletnev.”
“Ashfield. “Now and then, you meet me in front of the corpses of my men.”
Snap-
“Huh huh huh! The executive director of District 38 is on the scene. “Don’t you think it’s a bit excessive?”
“I can say that it was not enough to deal with Raptor’s Swarm Alpha, but I can’t say it was too much.”
Tak- Degurrrrr….
Quaaaaang!
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Patter-patter-
“….Damn it! Why is this happening! At least out of all the crazy people here, you are the only one who cares about the Dom! “You probably know what will happen if you let those crazy fanatics do what they do!”
Ta-ta-ang!
“okay. So, as soon as possible… I will kill you and go deal with you too!”
“It’s so shocking that not a single thing has changed!”
“…As the head of the executive department, I will begin the execution of the 2,400 citizens you burned in the Area 52 dome four years ago.”
-Taaaang!
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“I observed you! At the end of the crisis, let us shed our human skin one by one and be reborn as a true adversary! Come here, wolf! “I will groom you to be my true self!”
“Shit! It’s against the law to not die even after being hit by an anti-tank mine! “What on earth should we kill that rotten fur thing with?”
“Didn’t I tell you! Cut off my breath with your sharpest claws! So let’s put our little tricks aside and face each other again!”
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
Taaaang!
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Snap. click. click. Click…
A ruin somewhere wide and dark.
In a place where endless screens illuminated the darkness, a man in a white suit and a small girl were facing each other.
“…Because. 2359 As shown on screen, Dome’s reinforcements are taking the battle to their own even though they have lost most of their high-power equipment…” “
Is there a situation where the word watershed is even appropriate?”
“…It appears that the Happy Blind will soon begin its duties and the box will complete its final preparations and be returned to its proper location.”
“yes. Everything is going according to your plan W. A battlefield where no one has the upper hand, everyone eats each other down, and the greatest number of lives are lost. The people you have collected while traveling through the 30th District, the residents of the 38th District Dome, and the numerous mutants and people who have disappeared in this battle. “Orpheus will resonate with his high, beautiful voice as much as the sorrow that ‘she’ in the box faces.”
The girl collector looked at W, who looked business-like the whole time, and smiled sadly. Poor person. If there is a God, why did he create us with egos and stay in someone’s nightmare?
“….With all the main actors on stage, my involvement is extremely slim. 1493 If you listen to the conversation between the group of survivors on screen-”
“W. Don’t you know that too? “This kind of radical action goes against my father’s will, and I also do not welcome it.”
“…Just visiting a small group of survivors and driving a small wedge into public opinion is enough…”
“I blame you. W. The contract I made with you was not for moments like this.”
“……”
At that moment, W’s report, which had not stopped once since arriving here, stopped.
“This is a method prepared for you, who cannot stay in the same place even for a single moment of their own will, and can only stay in the same place when doing other people’s work. Do you really want to stay by my side even if it means doing something I hate? “If I break this contract for my father’s will-”
“Then I will just find another way.”
Watching his body begin to blur from the moment it became a conversation instead of an office job, W stretched out his hand toward one of the collector’s numerous screens. [Screen 29]. A screen showing a man wearing a white suit and mask.
He didn’t waver. Because we’re almost there now. Because the end of a lifetime of wandering is looming before my eyes.
“…Even that hate and hatred. Because it’s a feeling you can’t receive unless you’re next to me. “I’m willing
to endure it-”
The man in the white suit disappeared before he could say two sentences. W probably wanted to stay here a little longer, so he was talking in detail about everything that was going on in the 30th division. Even though he knew she hated his work so much.
“father. “Is there really still a chance in this broken world?”
No matter where you look on the screen, there is only blood, death, and pain. In her eyes, her father’s face, which spoke of hope even in this hell-like world, was good.
‘It’s God… I don’t know? At first, I thought it was me, but after being bullied for a while, I changed my mind. I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure there’s someone better than me. If you’re better than Androi Gedreutz, what else would you be but a god? Since that guy created this mess, he must have planted the solution somewhere. —-Hey, I plan to find it even now to undo the mistakes of my arrogant past.’
The hope I searched for according to my father’s will. The numerous screens that illuminated them were going off one by one for various reasons.
Like that man being chased by Noho, who wants to face his past even at this very moment.
“Please be the path.”
The girl with numerous wires hanging behind her back clasped her hands.
The screen she was facing while kneeling showed a man holding a box that was shaking as if the contents inside were about to pop out.
Orpheus. The worst weapon of mass destruction created in an era where living things and machines are mixed.
There was no hesitation in the hand of the man who opened it
– kkieeeeeeek!!!!!
As soon as the man’s head exploded, a sharp melody began to echo throughout the battlefield.
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Fuhuaak! Phew!
Pop boom! Faba Park!
What came before that sound was the blood that exploded like firecrackers in the distance.
Regardless of human or mutant, the blood is coming in full bloom like an invisible tsunami.
If it was luck, it was luck. Because I kept my eyes wide open to get rid of this corpse tiger that was chasing me to death, I was able to see the bloodbath coming at a tremendous speed in advance.
The moment I saw the Type 2.5 variant falling relatively unharmed among the heads exploding, I immediately turned up the output of the bubble shield to maximum.
-Kkeeeeeeeek!!!!!!
“Off!!!”
A strange noise penetrating the lungs. And the indescribable pain that followed.
It feels like my back is being opened and my spine is being scratched with a knife. No, it’s like putting a blade under every fingernail and digging into the ground with my bare hands, peeling off all the skin, pulling out each nerve and putting it in a mortar and crushing me to death, death, death, death…!
Crash!
[Come to your senses!]
“Wow! “Huh, huh, huh!”
With the thought that I almost got hit, I let out the breath I had been holding without realizing it.
Consciousness returns with the sharp sensation of chewing flesh in the mouth. The pain of reality and the pain of fantasy alternately pulled at my consciousness, and the thick scent of blood made me dizzy.
“You’re finally writing it. Orpheus… I was somewhat at ease because it was a type of thing that couldn’t tell the difference between enemy and enemy… but it seems he doesn’t care about such things.”
I don’t know what preparations were made, but it was completely different from what I heard from afar inside the Area 38 dome. An illusion creeping into my head, putting to shame the name of the bubble shield, which completely blocks external influences.
The battlefield, which was full of screaming and loud drinking, suddenly became a strange scene filled with strange music, heads exploding, and the sounds of living things falling.
“Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!”
Wow!
The condition of Buru, who was following behind, was also unusual. Like me, he was exposed to the effects of Orpheus without the shield’s filter, and although he did not die, he seemed seriously insane.
“Get out of the way…get that face away now! I have overcome you! I am not the same person from the past who lived a miserable life! You can’t laugh at me with that face! I am not you! “Regrets are not the remnants of memories born of regrets, but old age buru!!!!”
Wow! Wow!
The rotten body of a wild beast is revealed when the human-like skin is torn off with one’s own hands. Buru was fiercely slashing his claws against the fantasy unfolding before his eyes.
‘No matter what… this is an opportunity. ‘The opportunity I’ve been waiting for.’
All normal variants became headless corpses, but Type 2.5 only fell down and showed little movement. Considering that there are already some individuals raising their bodies, it is obvious that the offensive will continue again.
On the other hand, the situation at our troops’ positions was serious. In the ensuing battle, the shield’s battery was exhausted or even the remaining personal battery was connected to the equipment and the person fought bare-handed. Most of the soldiers in the line were dead, and some of them were rising to type 2.5 and some to type 3.
In order to protect the remaining equipment, only the soldiers around him survived thanks to the equipment shield being raised to maximum output.
An item that reduced the war between two groups to the level of a small skirmish with just one maneuver.
‘This… is an old-fashioned strategic weapon…!’
It wasn’t just killing. I can’t describe it, but… it’s a feeling like I’m taking on a huge pain. I couldn’t get the feeling out of my head that the sensations I felt in my body were the result of someone else’s experience.
‘The original development purpose of Orpheus. And the GG development team’s technology… This is something filled with more malice than you can imagine.’
At that moment, it occurred to me that I was the only one in this wide battlefield who could stop it.
An ally who suffered damage close to annihilation.
Friends whose fate is unknown.
In comparison, I am very familiar with the pain that crushes my entire body, have a secondary personality in my head called Hyd who endlessly tries to normalize my consciousness, have the combat power of a platoon or company, and have the physical strength to destroy even alloy equipment.
I have never believed in fate for a single moment, but I couldn’t help but be thankful for the luck of this moment.
If something like that were to come into the world in the wrong hands, the world could truly be ruined.
The closer I got, the more painful the roots became, and the memories of the people I had met flowed like a flash. People who passed by in the dome of Area 38 and Area 47. People in the District 47 chat room who I don’t even know their faces but have been together for several years. President Young. People from the inspection department. Ezel. Vex. Ian. Dana.
“…A sane guy should carry the gun.”
There was no grand meaning. I just hated the thought of myself surviving alone.
Tdu-duk!
Sensation of twisting joints. It’s refreshing because it’s been a while, but compared to the days of ‘The Hero Professor’, it’s not that big of a deal.
Far away!
The sensation of having your teeth pulled out and your gums ground down raw. This is refreshing. My vision became blurry for a moment, but I groaned by clenching my teeth.
Amidst all kinds of pain, I walked towards the altar, dragging my tattered body and legs as heavy as a thousand pounds.
-Quang.
Breaking through the silence, a comforting boom rang out from a distant rocky hill.
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